Word: dourness
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John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes up in a strange room with a dead woman. Who is she? he wonders. For that matter, who is he? In this dark city, dour bald aliens, known as the Strangers, have refitted humans with fake memories. Perhaps John is married to pretty Emma (Jennifer Connelly), perhaps not. Perhaps his world will end before he finds...
...more than 4% in the past 12 months, which is the greatest gain in 20 years when adjusted for inflation. The Dow is at 7756, more than doubling in three years, and corporate profits are at their highest level ever. Yet inflation is a negligible 2%, and even the dour Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan seems confident enough in the new economy to keep interest rates...
...would expect at least a few ghost stories. Surprisingly, however, there is little on record. It would make sense that, at the very least, there might be sightings of John Winthrop or one of the Mather boys in the buildings that bear their names. But no, even those most dour of Puritans stay dead. An exhaustive search of the archives brings up next to nothing. It seems that Harvard has managed to steer clear of the supernatural...
...credit of the actors, though, they manage to create worlds within themselves, leading to an almost incongruous comic machine in the form of Ilana Kurshan's Harriet, sister to Sylvia. Her mole like searching head and wide eyes cast light on the otherwise dour proceedings, while providing a kind of insider's guide to the marriage. At the same time, though, even Kurshan acquires a police-witness-feel in her casual chat with a gumshoe Hyman. Young Lee '99, as Phillip's boss whose pet project is adding a spiffy annex to the New York Harvard Club, reaches similar comic...
...fallout continues. Once again, dour comments by Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan on the state of the U.S. economy have touched off a world-wide spate of panic selling, reports Money Daily. Southeast Asian markets were the most affected, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index dropping 4 percent and Japan's Nikkei falling nearly 250 points. The bulls were equally spooked in Europe - Germany's DAX and Britain?s FTSE were sinking slowly early Thursday. All this on the back of Greenspan expounding a very simple economic truism: higher employment means higher wages and higher prices. What on earth...